It's like, in the middle of all this, I'm paranoid that you'll think I don't like poetry.

Buffy ,'Empty Places'


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Sean K - Feb 12, 2007 12:58:47 pm PST #587 of 25496
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty

Also, I have a new RAZR. I'm inordinately chuffed by this.

This also means I have a new cell phone number, and should try to disseminate it to peeps who want it.


Sue - Feb 13, 2007 3:15:03 am PST #588 of 25496
hip deep in pie

Laga - Feb 13, 2007 10:04:27 am PST #589 of 25496
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.

Never mind. My sister decided to go with a cheap MP3 player so she doesn't need anyone to go in with her anymore. Thanks for the info, though!


DXMachina - Feb 14, 2007 4:10:09 am PST #590 of 25496
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

iPod tutorial videos: [link]


le nubian - Feb 14, 2007 7:22:44 am PST #591 of 25496
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

Okay, I am having a bear of an issue. I am trying, on a PC, to do an email merge of a word document. I need to personalize a set of letters and want them to go out in individual emails.

When I attempt this, Word doesn't actually send out any email messages, and then when I try "mail merge to Adobe Acrobat" and try to email, I get an error of "MAPI unsuccessful."

Does anyone have any suggestions of what I can do. I've googled my ass off about this and can't find anything.


tommyrot - Feb 14, 2007 7:26:50 am PST #592 of 25496
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

I'm not that familiar with Word mail merge, so I'll just throw this out there:

What email client are you using? I think that for this to work, Word must interface with Outlook or Outlook Express. If that's the case then one of those must be correctly set up on your computer.

"MAPI" has to do with an email connection to your email server, right?


le nubian - Feb 14, 2007 8:02:34 am PST #593 of 25496
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

I have tried putting in my account information in both OE and Outlook and the merge STILL doesn't work. The weird thing is that I can email individually from Word, but not do a merge. I don't get that.


Eddie - Feb 14, 2007 8:35:06 am PST #594 of 25496
Your tag here.

I am trying, on a PC, to do an email merge of a word document.

Found this [link] maybe there's something in there that will help you.

From the link:

If you're creating merged e-mail messages, Word sends the messages immediately after you complete the merge. Therefore, after you choose which messages you want to send, you are prompted to indicate the column in your data file where Word can find e-mail addresses for the recipients. You also are prompted to type a subject line for the message.


askye - Feb 15, 2007 12:46:58 pm PST #595 of 25496
Thrive to spite them

I think my Nano died.

This morning it had a full charge and I played it at lunch, and then afterwards stuck it in my pocket and forgot to put it in my purse. When I was walking to the car I pulled it out and it wouldn't turn on so I figured I'd accidentally left it on and ran down the charge. But I plugged it in to recharge and it's still off and not responding.

I got it last year for Christmas. Could it just die or will it recharge and I just need to be patient?


Theodosia - Feb 15, 2007 2:20:42 pm PST #596 of 25496
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"

It could need a reset -- maybe its OS has crashed and so it won't turn on again enough to recharge? I've had to reset my mini a couple of times, and each time I've had to go to the Apple support pages in order to recall how you reset it (it's holding down a couple of the clicker-buttons, and I can never remember which). Worth a try!